file-number

#Identifies number of files in a directory.  Used to size loop to uplaod files

import fnmatch
import os

#local directory path.  replace with appropriate path
dirpath='/home/dspeck/attention3'

#print len(fnmatch.filter(os.listdir(dirpath), '*.txt'))

#identifies how many files are in a directory.  Replace txt with appropriate extension
numfiles = len(fnmatch.filter(os.listdir(dirpath), '*.txt'))
print(numfiles)